Del.icio.us!
Boy! This has been an eye opener. I have often had the feeling that there was waaaaay more happening on the web than I was aware of. Watching these tutorial videos, I really began to have a strange mix of emotions. I was fascinated and a little awe struck by how much stuff is going on out there on the web that I have had and still have NO IDEA about. This was mixed with a whole lot of apathy toward the situation as well. Honestly, I am left feeling a little overwhelmed and inadequate for being so unaware of so much. I loved the concept of harnessing collective intelligence. I really think that the web has already provided and will continue to provide more useful information than any person can ever digest. What is needed most then is an ability to filter out the best information for ones one particular purposes. This is spot on what social bookmarking is all about. I began by typing in some interests I have in this area beginning with outdoors. I began following alternate tags set by other people and ended up finding out about a great place to go mountain biking, Lehigh Gorge in Pennsylvania pictured above. I can foresee many applications of this network. Research could be revolutionized. The more people spend time working with these sites, and the better the user gets at finding other users and tags with similar priorities, the more luck we will have hooking up with the information we need.it is easy to envision how making research more efficient could stimulate and motivate today's students to explore in ways that were impossible to us older folks. I honestly don't understand how people find time in the day to keep abreast with all of this stuff. I feel swamped most of the time. I'll bet that as one becomes better and better at using these networking tools, a snowball effect begins to take place where ones online contacts begin to do much of this staying caught up business for us.
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